New approaches to resistance in Brazil and Mexico / John Gledhill and Patience A. Schell, editions.

Includes bibliographical references (pages[355]-387) and index.

Rethinking Amerindian resistance and persistence in colonial Portuguese America / John Monteiro -- Rituals of defiance : past resistance, present ambiguity / Felipe Castro Gutieŕrez -- Indian resistances to the rebellion of 1712 in Chiapas / Juan Pedro Viqueira -- The "commander of all forests" against the "Jacobins" of Brazil : the Cabanada, 1832-1835 / Marcus J. M. de Carvalho -- A "great arch" descending : manumission rates, subaltern social mobility, and the identities of enslaved, freeborn, and freed Blacks in southeastern Brazil, 1791-1888 / Robert W. Slenes -- Millenarianism, hegemony, and resistance in Brazil / Patricia R. Pessar -- Where does resistance hide in contemporary Candomble?́ / Luis Nicolau Pareś -- Catholic resistances in revolutionary Mexico during the religious conflict / Jean Meyer -- Gender, resistance, and Mexico's church-state conflict / Patience A. Schell -- Tracing resistance : community and ethnicity in a peasant organization / Margarita Zaŕate -- Resistance, factionalism, and ethnogenesis in southern Jalisco / Guillermo de la Penã -- The transhistorical, juridical-formal, and post-utopian Quilombo / Ilka Boaventura Leite -- From resistance avenue to the plaza of decisions : new urban actors in -- Salvador, Bahia / Maria Gabriela Hita -- Contestation in the courts : the Amparo as a form of resistance to the cancellation of agrarian reform in Mexico / Helga Baitenmann -- Beyond resistance : raising utopias from the fead in Mexico City and Oaxaca / Matthew Gutmann.